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	{{~~short~~ description\|White ~~Supremacist~~ ~~Gang~~}}		{{Short description\|White supremacist gang}}
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	\| name = Nazi Lowriders		\| name = Nazi Lowriders
	\| image = File:Nazi_Lowriders_logo.gif		\| image = File:Nazi_Lowriders_logo.gif
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	\| caption = Emblem of the Nazi Lowriders, based on the '']'' symbol		\| caption = Emblem of the Nazi Lowriders, based on the '']'' symbol
			\| founded = 1970s<ref name="adl"> ] (January 1, 2005) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014125138/https://www.adl.org/resources/profiles/nazi-low-riders \|date=October 14, 2020 }}</ref>
	\| founded = Late 1960s
	\| founder = <!--or \| founders = -->		\| founder = <!--or \| founders = -->
	\| named_after = ~~Acquired~~ ~~From~~ ~~Cripp~~ ~~Gang~~ ~~Wars~~		\| named_after =
	\| founding_location = ~~Southern~~ California, United States		\| founding_location = ], California, United States<ref name="adl"/>
	\| years_active = ~~1960s~~ – ~~Present-Day~~		\| years_active = 1970s–present
	\| territory = Primarily ]		\| territory = Primarily ], with a smaller presence in numerous other U.S. states<ref name=adl/>
			\| ethnicity = ]<ref name="cicad.oas.org">{{citation\|work=Narcotics Digest Weekly\|volume=4\|issue=40\|date=2005-10-04\|publisher=National Drug Intelligence Center\|title=Special Issue: Gangs in the United States\|url=http://www.cicad.oas.org/Crimen_Organizado/ESP/Actualidad/Pandillas%20en%20USA.pdf\|access-date=2009-11-14\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060524220015/http://www.cicad.oas.org/Crimen_Organizado/ESP/Actualidad/Pandillas%20en%20USA.pdf\|archive-date=2006-05-24}}</ref>
	\| ethnicity = ]
			\| membership_est = 1,000<ref name="1,000 members"> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422235619/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/nazi-low-riders-boast-over-1000-members-most-prison \|date=2021-04-22 }} Camille Jackson, ] (July 20, 2004)</ref>
	\| membership_est = 1,000
			\| leaders =
			\| activities = Drug trafficking, extortion, armed robbery, assault, murder, identity fraud, money laundering<ref name="adl"/><ref name="cicad.oas.org" />
			\| allies = <!-- Any and all additions to this section require a reliable source. --> {{plainlist\|
			* ]<ref name=adl />
			* ]<ref name="White Power Gangs"> B. Belt and G. Doyle, ] (March 1998) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131193458/https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/white-power-gangs-nlr-nazi-low-riders-story \|date=January 31, 2022 }}</ref>
			* ]<ref name="drug">{{Cite news\|last=Rosenzweig\|first=David\|date=August 3, 2000\|title=Federal Prosecutors Target Prison Gang in Drug Crackdown\|work=]\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-03-me-63712-story.html\|url-status=live\|url-access=limited\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306162913/http://articles.latimes.com/2000/aug/03/local/me-63712\|archive-date=March 6, 2014}}</ref>
			* ]<ref name="Bigots on Bikes"> ] (September 2011) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112104927/https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/ADL_CR_Bigots_on_Bikes_online.pdf \|date=November 12, 2019 }}</ref>
			* ]<ref name=adl />
			* ]<ref>{{cite news\|last1=McCleskey\|first1=O'Neill, Claire\|title=The allies sureños have are "Skinheads" or "Nazis"\|url=http://www.answers.com/news-briefs/sureños-allied-with-nazi-lowriders\|publisher=InSight Crime\|date=November 29, 2012\|access-date=June 15, 2022\|archive-date=May 23, 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523024659/http://www.answers.com/news-briefs/sure%C3%B1os-allied-with-nazi-lowriders/\|url-status=live}}</ref>
			* ]<ref name="Bigots on Bikes"/>
	}}		}}
			\| rivals = <!-- Any and all additions to this section require a reliable source. -->
			\| notable_members =
			}}
			The '''Nazi Lowriders''', also known as '''NLR''' or '''the Ride''', are a ], ] ] syndicate, and ] and ] in the United States. Primarily based in ],<ref name="adl"/> the gang is allied with the larger ] and ] gangs,<ref name=drug /> and fellow ] gang ].<ref name=drug /> The Nazi Lowriders operate both in and outside of prison.<ref name="1,000 members"/>

			== History ==
	The '''Nazi Lowriders''' are a ] and a '''Lowrider Car Club''' that are based in ] and are active in ]. '''Nazi Lowriders''' are also known collectively as '''The NLR''' and are also collectively known as '''The Ride''' of '''Nazi Lowriders'''.
			The Nazi Lowriders originated as a ] gang in the ] during the early-to-mid 1970s, and later established itself as a gang for young ] inmates.<ref name="adl"/> It was created by members of the ] (AB), the leading white gang in the ].<ref name="splc">{{cite magazine\|last=Jackson\|first=Carmille\|date=July 20, 2004\|title=Nazi Low Riders Boast Over 1,000 Members, Most in Prison\|url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/nazi-low-riders-boast-over-1000-members-most-prison\|url-status=live\|magazine=]\|publisher=]\|issue=114\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110328073348/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/summer/nazi-low-riders\|archive-date=March 28, 2011\|access-date=May 26, 2017}}</ref> In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Aryan Brotherhood leader John Stinson began recruiting skinheads incarcerated in the California Youth Authority at the ] in ], and at the Youth Training School in ], to act as middlemen in the AB's criminal operations.<ref name="adl"/>

	==Origins==
	'''Nazi Lowriders''' were formed in ], ] and in ], ] in the late 1960s as a gang of members who owned ] ] vehicles with origins in the Southern California ] ] Community. They were first seen by authorities on the border of ], ] and in ], ]. The name of the gang was originally a play on words as the gang fought their enemy '''Hispanic Lowrider Gangs''' and overcame their rival '''Hispanic Lowrider Gangs''' in Southern California. ] street gangs did not actually exist in Southern California during the arrival and waves of immigration of Non-Hispanic Whites into ] from the ] to the ]. Nazi Lowriders formed their own ] in Southern California in the late 1970s as they were incarcerated for street crimes and they later formed a small alliance with the original Aryan Brotherhood members of ]. The '''Nazi Lowrider''' ] and the '''Nazi Lowrider''' ] are the same thing and these entities were not founded by ] or by the ]. The Nazi Lowriders were later formed as a White-Hispanic Car Club of Southern California in the late 1960s.

	Video footage and collected media namely from ] as well as from video news reports show the '''Nazi Lowriders''' in '''street races''' near ] in ], ] in the early 1990s and '''Lowrider Car Shows''' in ], ] and ], ] in the mid 1990s to the late 1990s.

	=History and Origins In The Southern California Hispanic Lowrider Car Culture=
	The phrase: '''Nazi Lowrider''' is a phrase that was coined by the founder of this Car Club as members went to war with their enemy gangs known as the '''Cripps''' which is a word that is usually shortened to the word ] and is a ] that was and is exclusively based in Southern California. The '''Nazi Lowriders''' also went to war with the '''Cripp''' counterpart gangs that are known as the ] all throughout the ] in Southern California and later they went to war with the ''Cripp'' owned Car Club collectively known as the ] all throughout the ] and the early to mid ]. Many of the original '''Cripps''' gang members were part Hispanic and or mixed with ] and ] heritage whereas the members of the '''Nazi Lowriders''' were the most racially pure out of all of the '''Lowrider Car Clubs''' in Southern California, hence the phrase: '''Nazi Lowrider'''. The '''Cripps''' later formed more alliances with the '''Latin-American''' community in Southern California whereas the '''Nazi Lowriders''' formed more alliances with the Non-Hispanic White and White-Hispanic communities.

	The word ] and ] refer to people with Latin-American heritage. Latin-American countries are all of the countries that are south of the country of ]. While ] can be considered ] because they speak a dialect of the language of ] not all ] ] or ] ] have origins from the country of ] and many Mexicans have both ] ] and ] ( From ] ) heritage whereas ] and ] which are technically multi-generational Californians are people that descend from the era of ]. ] and ] are a completely different Hispanic group.

	=Differences In Hispanic Groups=
	* The word ] refer to all of the people with provable heritage from the world of ].
	* The word ] refer to the world of ] speakers worldwide.
	* The word ] refer to the country of ] where the language of ] come from.
	* The phrase ] refers to people with provable heritage from Latin American countries which are all of the countries below ].
	* The words ] and ] refer to people with provable multi-generational ] heritage from ] during the Spanish Occupation of California from the ] to the ].
	* The words ] and ] refers to people with that specific Mexican-Hispanic ethnic identity.
	* The words ] and ] refers to people with provable heritage from the areas known as Texas before it was declared the U.S. State of ].
	* The words ] and ] refers to people with provable heritage from the areas known as Tijuana in present-day México.
	* The words ] and ] refers to people with provable heritage from the country of México who are first generation Americans of the continental United States.
	* The words ] and ] refers to people with provable heritage from any American Country within the entire American Continent.
	* The phrase ] refer to people with provable heritage from the country of ] where the language of Spanish comes from.
	* The phrase ] refer to people with provable heritage of American ] origins and possibly with White Hispanic origins who appear Non-Hispanic White.
	* The phrase ] refer to people with provable heritage from ] who have no heritage from ] and who also have no heritage from Eastern-Europe.
	* The phrase ] refer to people with provable heritage from ] who also have no heritage from any Latin-American country.
	* The word ] refer to people with provable mixed heritage of ] of the areas of what is now known as México and with ] heritage.
	* The word ] refer to people with provable heritage of ] of the areas of what is now known as México with no ] heritage.
	* The word ] refer to people with provable heritage of mixed ] and or ] and African / Negroid ancestry.
	* The word ] and ] refer to people with provable ] heritage and ] heritage.
	* The word ] and ] refer to young people with provable ] heritage and ] heritage.

	=Unique Contributions To The Lowrider Car Culture of Southern California=
	Nazi Lowriders contributed significant advancements to the Lowrider Car Culture of Southern California most notably the extended hydraulic suspension engineering schemes and Nazi Lowrider Lowriders that were seen between the 1980s and the 1990s were extremely unique. They also wrote advanced custom software from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s that ran from any Internet web browser where any of the members could send messages to any other member to get picked up anywhere by ], send orders, make ] phone calls and more.

			The gang did not come to the attention of law enforcement until the early 1990s, by which time authorities in the ] had begun suppressing the Aryan Brotherhood's activities.<ref name="adl"/> The Nazi Lowriders' position as middlemen for the Aryan Brotherhood, along with the crackdown on the AB, allowed the gang to supplant the Brotherhood as the most prominent white prison gang in California.<ref name="12 Inmates Accused"> David Rosenzweig, '']'' (February 15, 2002) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807205333/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-15-me-nazi15-story.html \|date=August 7, 2023 }}</ref> While maintaining its presence in the prison system, the Nazi Lowriders also became a street gang, firstly in ], and later in ] and ], during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Due to gang's rapid expansion, links with other ] gangs, and highly organized operations, the Nazi Lowriders established themselves as a significant crime group on the ].<ref name="adl"/>
	=Banishment of Lowrider Vehicles=
	In the 1990s and the 2000s in ] as well as in different cities in ] officials banned Lowrider Racing Vehicles with ] because the lowrider gangs could easily beat all of the ] and the ] everywhere in California by using those engineered lowrider vehicles. Law Enforcement could not keep up with the speed of the vehicles and no one could hide from the manuverability of those vehicles. Nazi Lowriders were known to have exteneded suspension hydraulics that could not be mimicked by other lowrider gangs where the entire vehicle could be raised sometimes up to 30 feet in the air and shield from enemy gun fire.

			As opposed to other white criminal gangs in California prisons, the NLR gained a reputation for being very violent. They are labeled as a ] by the ]. They are strong in numbers in such California communities as ], ], ], ], Rosamond and ]. The "Nazi" part of their name is more a sign of a racist belief in white supremacy than ], while "Lowriders" is a play on the term used for Hispanic gangs.{{citation needed\|date=November 2023}}
	=Membership Requirements=
	The original Nazi Lowriders required members to prove specific and ] ] ] ], but no ] heritage and no ] heritage. People with any ] heritage were not allowed membership in the Nazi Lowrider Car Club or the Nazi Lowrider Prison Gang. Nazi Lowriders also required members to own a specific ] ] with or without ]. Lowrider Chevy vehicles were required in order to beat all of the street-level gangs without vehicles as well as beat all of the rival Lowrider gangs. Members were also required to own a hand-gun so that member could engage in drive by shootings on their enemies from the lowrider vehicle. Hydraulics were later necessary in order to beat all of the enemies that hid in motels and hotels in Southern California as well as to tactically defend against gun fire from enemy gangs. Chevy vehicles that were manufactured between the 1960s to the late 1970s had extremely tough and high quality metals where ] ] and ] caliber rounds could not penetrate through the metals.

			The gang eventually progressed from being muscle for the Aryan Brotherhood to a fast-growing gang in their own right. Unlike other white supremacist gangs in the US, they appear to be well organized and have developed links with other white organizations throughout the West Coast, including the ] and ]. Paroled gang members have been known to move east to further spread the organization's reach.{{citation needed\|date=November 2023}}
	=Memorializatons=
	All dead members of the Nazi Lowriders are remembered every year for their participation, gentrification and more.

			On January 28, 1999, California prison officials recognized the Lowriders as a prison gang. Consequently, in an attempt to disrupt the gang's criminal activities, inmates known to be members can now be subjected to removal from the general population, as well as other restrictive treatments. To this, the Lowriders have responded by striking an alliance with ], another white disruptive group, which has since taken over the reins on California's white mainline prison population. Where ] and NLR have left off, PENI or Public Enemy No. 1 (Pronounced 'PEE NYE') plan to continue the 'key holding'.{{citation needed\|date=November 2023}}
	===Gentrification===
	Nazi Lowriders assisted in the ] of ], ] as well as of ], ]. Notably ], California and ], California in Kern County throughout the 80s and the early to mid 1990s as well as several cities in ], ].

			== Organization and membership ==
	==Street Wars==
			In prison, the Nazi Lowriders have a three-tier hierarchy system consisting of senior members, junior members, and kids. The seniors typically lead the gang. For senior status, gang members must have been active for at least five years and been elected by at least three other senior members. Below them are juniors, who cannot themselves induct new members but can attempt to recruit potentials. Kids usually come from gangs like Public Enemy No.1, and the senior member who inducts them becomes their mentor. On the streets, the organization structure is not so clear, and appears to be more loosely connected.{{citation needed\|date=November 2023}}
	Nazi Lowriders have been seen in numerous street battles throughout Southern California noticed from the 1970s and onward.

			Nazi Lowriders members are typically aged in their teens and early 20s.<ref name="adl"/>
	=Years Noticed=
	* Nazi Lowriders Versus Cripps - Ended In Truces With Different Cripp Groups In Southern California
	* Nazi Lowriders Versus Bloods - War Ongoing
	* Nazi Lowriders Verus Surenos of Southern California - Ended In Truce and Alliance
	* Nazi Lowriders Versus Northern Sinaloa Cartel of Southern California - Ended In Truce
	* Nazi Lowriders Versus Tijuana Mexican Cartel - Ended In Truce
	* Nazi Lowriders Versus U.S. Marines - Unknown

			Gang members may have ] and other body art depicting ] and SS ]s, although members are not necessarily required to bear them. A tattoo of the letters NLR (the acronym for "Nazi Lowriders") commonly appears on members' stomachs, backs or necks. Other popular tattoos include "Nazi Low Riders" written in Old English script or the ]. The logo of the NLR is a skeletal eagle holding a Nazi swastika, with the letters of the group based on the ] symbol.{{citation needed\|date=November 2023}}
	=Nazi Lowriders Versus Cripps=
	Nazi Lowriders are known to have gone to war with the Cripps of Kern County and of Los Angeles County throughout the 1980s. The son of the founder of the Nazi Lowrider Car Club was taken away by ] of the ] as a baby in Downtown Los Angeles, Southern California in ~1988 after Cripps gang members fired several rounds into his father's lowrider vehicle in Downtown Los Angeles, Southern California. Gunfire was returned by
	the Nazi Lowriders and law enforcement and the local news station responded to the incident.

			According to the ], "Despite the NLR's avowed racism, Latino last names and Latino wives and girlfriends are OK, but, experts say, members are supposed to be at least half Caucasian.".<ref>{{cite news \| url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/nazi-low-riders-boast-over-1000-members-most-prison \| title=Nazi Low Riders Boast over 1,000 Members, Most in Prison \| newspaper=Southern Poverty Law Center \| access-date=2020-11-28 \| archive-date=2021-04-22 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422235619/https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2004/nazi-low-riders-boast-over-1000-members-most-prison \| url-status=live }}</ref> In fact, much of the NLR's upper echelon is composed of Hispanics.{{Citation needed\|date=February 2021}} Due to their extreme underground ties with other hardcore, racial organizations (such as ] or ]), experts say, "you must be at least half white blood but no black blood", meaning accepted Latino members must be only of ] descent, or be at least half Caucasian. All must show loyalty to the white race and subscribe to an ideology of hatred, especially against blacks and "race traitors".{{Citation needed\|date=February 2021}}
	=Nazi Lowriders Versus Sinaloa Cartel=
	Nazi Lowriders are known to have been in several shootouts with the ] in and around the city of South Gate in ], ] throughout the 1980s and the 1990s where news stations have responded to these incidents.

			The gang took its name from the phrase "]", which is associated with ] gangs, as an "act of ]".<ref name="adl"/>
	=Nazi Lowriders Versus Norteños=
	Nazi Lowriders were known to have battled ] in ], ] where news stations have responded to these incidents.

			Methamphetamine abuse is common among members of the group.<ref>{{Cite magazine\|last=Finnegan\|first=William\|date=November 24, 1997\|title=The Unwanted\|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/12/01/the-unwanted\|url-status=live\|magazine=]\|issue=December 1, 1997\|page=60\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327232008/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/12/01/the-unwanted\|archive-date=March 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name="police">{{Cite magazine\|last=Valdemar\|first=Richard\|date=February 1, 2008\|title=The Rise and Fall of the Nazi Low Riders\|url=https://www.policemag.com/373085/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-nazi-low-riders\|url-status=live\|magazine=Police: The Magazine for Cops\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910151526/http://www.policemag.com/blog/gangs/story/2008/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-nazi-low-riders.aspx\|archive-date=September 10, 2011}}</ref><ref name="adl"/><ref>Morales, Gabe (ndg) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829162203/http://www.criminaljusticesolutionsllc.com/nazi-lowriders.html \|date=2017-08-29 }} Criminal Justice Solutions, LLC</ref>
	=Nazi Lowriders Versus Tijuana Mexican Cartel=
	Nazi Lowriders were allied with the Sureños of Kern County in Southern California when they battled the Tijuana Mexican Cartel in the late 1990s.

			=== Ideology ===
	==Spark of The Wars Between The Nazi Lowriders and The Tijuana Mexican Cartel==
			While the Nazi Lowriders are primarily an ] entity, the gang's ] ideology is central to its identity. According to the ], the gang "champions its whiteness especially when recruiting members from skinhead gangs and among new inmates, but it is primarily driven by criminal profit". The NLR's racist ideology has been the motivation for numerous violent crimes carried out by the gang.<ref name="adl"/>
	The son of one of the founders of the Nazi Lowrider Car Club was drugged and molested repeatedly by a Non-Black Hispanic female member of the ] who also had membership in the Tijuana Mexican Cartel and who targeted the Nazi Lowriders in 1997. This started a war between the Nazi Lowriders and the Tijuana Cartel where that son was later ordered to stab a Tijuana Cartel ] who lived on the border of ], Southern California and ], México and who facilitated drugs and humans across the border of México and into the United States. The Nazi Lowriders traveled to San Diego, Southern California and confronted that ] Plaza Boss and the child that was molested stabbed that Tijuana Cartel Plaza Boss. This small war between the Nazi Lowriders and the Tijuana Cartel ended in a truce in ~ 2002. The son of one of the founders of the Nazi Lowrider Car Club was taken away from his family and placed in Child Protective Custody.

			=== Presence ===
	=Nazi Lowriders Versus U.S. Marines=
			The Nazi Lowriders are active primarily in ], with a smaller presence in other U.S. states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada and New Mexico. The gang's presence spread outside of California after members moved to other states in order to expand the NLR's criminal operations after being paroled from prison. The Nazi Lowriders first came to the attention of authorities as a street gang in ], and subsequently spread throughout Southern California, and later in ] and ].<ref name="adl"/> In Southern California, the gang is based in the ] and in ].<ref name="Man Pleads Guilty"> David Rosenzweig, '']'' (August 11, 1998) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722191922/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-11-me-12071-story.html \|date=July 22, 2023 }}</ref>
	In 2005 the ] attempted a covert infiltration of the Nazi Lowrider Car Club by using the identity of the son of one of the founders of the Nazi Lowrider Car Club.

			The Nazi Lowriders had 28 confirmed members in 1996, but by 2000, the ] (FBI) estimated that the gang had 1,500 members in the California prison system and 400 in ]. In 1999, authorities identified 100 members of the gang in Nevada.<ref name="adl"/>
	==Current and Former Alliances==
	* Specific ] and ] of California
	* Specific ] and ] Motorcycle Clubs of California
	* Specific ] and ] Car Clubs of California

			== Criminal activity ==
	==Current and Former Rivals==
			The organization is involved in criminal activity both in and out of prison, notably in the production and distribution of ], and has become a distributor of the drug in Southern California.<ref name=splc /><ref name=adl /><ref name=police /><ref name="drug"/> The Nazi Lowiders also have connections with ]s, including the ],<ref name="White Power Gangs"/> the ],<ref name="Bigots on Bikes"/> and the ].<ref name="Bigots on Bikes"/>

			This gang is responsible for dozens of assaults, attempted murders, and murders around Southern California and is considered an extremely dangerous and violent gang.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Hayes\|first=Dade\|date=October 28, 1997\|title=Man Pleads Guilty to Racial Assaults\|work=]\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-28-me-47529-story.html\|url-status=live\|url-access=limited\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801025157/http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/28/local/me-47529\|archive-date=August 1, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|last=Rosenzweig\|first=David\|date=June 8, 1999\|title=Skinhead Gang Member Sentenced in Hate Crimes\|work=]\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-08-me-45225-story.html\|url-status=live\|url-access=limited\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311221839/http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jun/08/local/me-45225\|archive-date=March 11, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news\|last=Larrubia\|first=Evelyn\|date=October 29, 1997\|title=Supremacists Charged With Racial Murder\|work=]\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-oct-29-mn-47894-story.html\|url-status=live\|url-access=limited\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714043845/http://articles.latimes.com/1997/oct/29/news/mn-47894\|archive-date=July 14, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine\|last=Valdez\|first=A.\|date=March 1999\|title=Nazi Low Riders\|url=https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=177437\|magazine=Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine\|type=abstract\|volume=23\|issue=3\|pages=46–48\|id=NCJ Number 177437\|via=the ]\|access-date=2017-08-29\|archive-date=2017-08-29\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829163748/https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=177437\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	==Current and Former Enemies==

	==~~Current~~ ~~and~~ ~~Former~~ ~~Truces~~==		=== Notable crimes ===
			The Nazi Lowriders carried out two ]s against ] in ] in 1996.<ref name="adl"/> According to federal investigators, the street assaults were an attempt at "driving blacks out of the predominantly white community through a campaign of terror and violence". Gang members Eric Dillard and Danny Edward Williams used a baseball bat in the beating of Eric Miller outside a video rental store, on April 28, 1996. On July 8, 1996, Dillard, Williams and a juvenile who was not identified because of his age attacked and stabbed Marcus Cotton four times in the back. Williams was sentenced to 57 months' imprisonment, on June 1, 1998, and Dillard was sentenced to three years', on June 7, 1999. The third defendant was tried as a juvenile.<ref name="Man Pleads Guilty"/><ref name="Skinhead Sentenced"> David Rosenzweig, '']'' (June 8, 1999) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128194651/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-08-me-45225-story.html \|date=November 28, 2020 }}</ref>
	* ] and ] of California

			Two Nazi Lowriders members, Shaun Broderick and Christopher Crawford, allegedly attacked Nathaniel Harris, an African American ] employee, with a 20-ounce hammer in a store parking lot in Lancaster, in March 1999. The pair were arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and civil rights violations.<ref name="adl"/><ref name="2 Arrested"> Kurt Streeter, '']'' (March 25, 1999) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722210539/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-25-me-20765-story.html \|date=July 22, 2023 }}</ref><ref name="2 Men Arrested"> Kurt Streeter, '']'' (March 25, 1999) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722210523/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-mar-25-me-20928-story.html \|date=July 22, 2023 }}</ref>
	==Criminal Activities==

			In August 2001, Trevor David Thompson, a Nazi Lowrider and member of the ] from California, wounded Ashley McNeil, a 14-year old African American girl, in a ] in ]. McNeil was targeted because of her race, according to police.<ref name="adl"/> In May 2002, Thompson was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder.<ref name="Spreading Hate"> Michael Koryta, '']'' (August 18, 2002) {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230208140145/https://www.religionnewsblog.com/469/spreading-hate \|date=February 8, 2023 }}</ref>
	=Notable Crimes=

			=== Investigations and prosecutions ===
	==In Popular Culture==
			On March 29, 2001, NLR members Marcello Castellano and Scott Kuhn were arrested after ] (LASD) deputies seized 73 firearms, including assault rifles, as well as hand grenades, body armor and a silencer, during raids on three locations in ]. A sheriff's uniform and Nazi paraphernalia were also recovered.<ref>{{cite news\|date=March 31, 2001\|title=73 Firearms Seized, 2 Men Arrested\|work=]\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-31-me-45102-story.html\|url-status=live\|url-access=limited\|access-date=May 26, 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223034212/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/31/local/me-45102\|archive-date=December 23, 2014}}</ref>
	* In the 2010 crime film '']'', Jacob "Money" Harlon briefly has a cellmate named Ripper (played by ]) who is a member of the Nazi Lowriders Prison Gang, sporting an "NLR" tattoo across his forehead.

			A three-year investigation conducted by a task force headed by the FBI and the ] Police Department, with assistance from the ] (ATF), the ], the ] and the ], culminated with twelve members and associates of the Nazi Lowriders being charged in a 17-count indictment alleging extortion, conspiracy to distribute drugs in prison, witness tampering, robbery, attempted murder and murder, on February 13, 2002. All of those charged were already in custody at the time of the indictment. Michael Bridge, a high-level NLR member, and Robert Baltimore, a "soldier" in the gang, were charged with the murder of an inmate in 1996.<ref name="12 Inmates Accused"/> All twelve defendants pleaded guilty to federal ] charges, including a senior member of the gang who was sentenced to nearly 23 years in federal prison in 2003.<ref>{{cite news\|date=June 15, 2007\|title=Reputed prison gang members take plea deal\|work=]\|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-15-me-briefs15.2-story.html\|url-status=live\|url-access=limited\|access-date=May 26, 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306162930/http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jun/15/local/me-briefs15.2\|archive-date=March 6, 2014}}</ref>
	==Sources and Citations==

			== In popular culture ==
	=Sources=
			* In the 2017 crime film '']'', Jacob "Money" Harlon briefly has a cellmate named Ripper (played by ]) who is a member of the Nazi Lowriders, sporting an "NLR" tattoo across his forehead.
	* Nazi Lowriders :: Lowrider Magazine of Southern California

			== See also ==
	=Documentaries=
			{{Portal\|United States\|Criminal justice}}
	* The Rise and Fall of The Nazi Lowriders
			* ]

	=References=		== References ==
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White supremacist gang

Criminal organization

Nazi Lowriders
Emblem of the Nazi Lowriders, based on the Reichsadler symbol
Founded	1970s
Founding location	Preston Youth Correctional Facility, California, United States
Years active	1970s–present
Territory	Primarily Southern California, with a smaller presence in numerous other U.S. states
Ethnicity	White American
Membership (est.)	1,000
Activities	Drug trafficking, extortion, armed robbery, assault, murder, identity fraud, money laundering
Allies	Aryan Brotherhood Hells Angels MC Mexican Mafia Mongols MC Public Enemy No. 1 Sureños Vagos MC

The Nazi Lowriders, also known as NLR or the Ride, are a neo-Nazi, white supremacist organized crime syndicate, and prison and street gang in the United States. Primarily based in Southern California, the gang is allied with the larger Aryan Brotherhood and Mexican Mafia gangs, and fellow peckerwood gang Public Enemy No. 1. The Nazi Lowriders operate both in and outside of prison.

History

The Nazi Lowriders originated as a skinhead gang in the California Youth Authority during the early-to-mid 1970s, and later established itself as a gang for young white inmates. It was created by members of the Aryan Brotherhood (AB), the leading white gang in the California prison system. In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Aryan Brotherhood leader John Stinson began recruiting skinheads incarcerated in the California Youth Authority at the Preston Youth Correctional Facility in Ione, and at the Youth Training School in Chino, to act as middlemen in the AB's criminal operations.

The gang did not come to the attention of law enforcement until the early 1990s, by which time authorities in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had begun suppressing the Aryan Brotherhood's activities. The Nazi Lowriders' position as middlemen for the Aryan Brotherhood, along with the crackdown on the AB, allowed the gang to supplant the Brotherhood as the most prominent white prison gang in California. While maintaining its presence in the prison system, the Nazi Lowriders also became a street gang, firstly in Southern California, and later in Central California and Northern California, during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Due to gang's rapid expansion, links with other white power gangs, and highly organized operations, the Nazi Lowriders established themselves as a significant crime group on the West Coast.

As opposed to other white criminal gangs in California prisons, the NLR gained a reputation for being very violent. They are labeled as a prison gang by the California Department of Corrections. They are strong in numbers in such California communities as Oildale, Bakersfield, Lancaster, Inland Empire, Rosamond and Orange County. The "Nazi" part of their name is more a sign of a racist belief in white supremacy than anti-Semitism, while "Lowriders" is a play on the term used for Hispanic gangs.

The gang eventually progressed from being muscle for the Aryan Brotherhood to a fast-growing gang in their own right. Unlike other white supremacist gangs in the US, they appear to be well organized and have developed links with other white organizations throughout the West Coast, including the Ku Klux Klan and Hells Angels. Paroled gang members have been known to move east to further spread the organization's reach.

On January 28, 1999, California prison officials recognized the Lowriders as a prison gang. Consequently, in an attempt to disrupt the gang's criminal activities, inmates known to be members can now be subjected to removal from the general population, as well as other restrictive treatments. To this, the Lowriders have responded by striking an alliance with Public Enemy No. 1, another white disruptive group, which has since taken over the reins on California's white mainline prison population. Where Aryan Brotherhood and NLR have left off, PENI or Public Enemy No. 1 (Pronounced 'PEE NYE') plan to continue the 'key holding'.

Organization and membership

In prison, the Nazi Lowriders have a three-tier hierarchy system consisting of senior members, junior members, and kids. The seniors typically lead the gang. For senior status, gang members must have been active for at least five years and been elected by at least three other senior members. Below them are juniors, who cannot themselves induct new members but can attempt to recruit potentials. Kids usually come from gangs like Public Enemy No.1, and the senior member who inducts them becomes their mentor. On the streets, the organization structure is not so clear, and appears to be more loosely connected.

Nazi Lowriders members are typically aged in their teens and early 20s.

Gang members may have tattoos and other body art depicting swastikas and SS sigrunes, although members are not necessarily required to bear them. A tattoo of the letters NLR (the acronym for "Nazi Lowriders") commonly appears on members' stomachs, backs or necks. Other popular tattoos include "Nazi Low Riders" written in Old English script or the runic alphabet. The logo of the NLR is a skeletal eagle holding a Nazi swastika, with the letters of the group based on the Reichsadler symbol.

According to the SPLC, "Despite the NLR's avowed racism, Latino last names and Latino wives and girlfriends are OK, but, experts say, members are supposed to be at least half Caucasian.". In fact, much of the NLR's upper echelon is composed of Hispanics. Due to their extreme underground ties with other hardcore, racial organizations (such as Combat 18 or Blood and Honour), experts say, "you must be at least half white blood but no black blood", meaning accepted Latino members must be only of Spanish descent, or be at least half Caucasian. All must show loyalty to the white race and subscribe to an ideology of hatred, especially against blacks and "race traitors".

The gang took its name from the phrase "lowrider", which is associated with Hispanic gangs, as an "act of one-upmanship".

Methamphetamine abuse is common among members of the group.

Ideology

While the Nazi Lowriders are primarily an organized crime entity, the gang's white power ideology is central to its identity. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the gang "champions its whiteness especially when recruiting members from skinhead gangs and among new inmates, but it is primarily driven by criminal profit". The NLR's racist ideology has been the motivation for numerous violent crimes carried out by the gang.

Presence

The Nazi Lowriders are active primarily in Southern California, with a smaller presence in other U.S. states, including Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada and New Mexico. The gang's presence spread outside of California after members moved to other states in order to expand the NLR's criminal operations after being paroled from prison. The Nazi Lowriders first came to the attention of authorities as a street gang in Costa Mesa, California, and subsequently spread throughout Southern California, and later in Central California and Northern California. In Southern California, the gang is based in the Antelope Valley and in Orange County.

The Nazi Lowriders had 28 confirmed members in 1996, but by 2000, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimated that the gang had 1,500 members in the California prison system and 400 in San Bernardino, California. In 1999, authorities identified 100 members of the gang in Nevada.

Criminal activity

The organization is involved in criminal activity both in and out of prison, notably in the production and distribution of methamphetamine, and has become a distributor of the drug in Southern California. The Nazi Lowiders also have connections with motorcycle gangs, including the Hells Angels, the Mongols, and the Vagos.

This gang is responsible for dozens of assaults, attempted murders, and murders around Southern California and is considered an extremely dangerous and violent gang.

Notable crimes

The Nazi Lowriders carried out two hate crimes against African Americans in Lancaster, California in 1996. According to federal investigators, the street assaults were an attempt at "driving blacks out of the predominantly white community through a campaign of terror and violence". Gang members Eric Dillard and Danny Edward Williams used a baseball bat in the beating of Eric Miller outside a video rental store, on April 28, 1996. On July 8, 1996, Dillard, Williams and a juvenile who was not identified because of his age attacked and stabbed Marcus Cotton four times in the back. Williams was sentenced to 57 months' imprisonment, on June 1, 1998, and Dillard was sentenced to three years', on June 7, 1999. The third defendant was tried as a juvenile.

Two Nazi Lowriders members, Shaun Broderick and Christopher Crawford, allegedly attacked Nathaniel Harris, an African American Walmart employee, with a 20-ounce hammer in a store parking lot in Lancaster, in March 1999. The pair were arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and civil rights violations.

In August 2001, Trevor David Thompson, a Nazi Lowrider and member of the World Church of the Creator from California, wounded Ashley McNeil, a 14-year old African American girl, in a drive-by shooting in Indianapolis. McNeil was targeted because of her race, according to police. In May 2002, Thompson was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder.

Investigations and prosecutions

On March 29, 2001, NLR members Marcello Castellano and Scott Kuhn were arrested after Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) deputies seized 73 firearms, including assault rifles, as well as hand grenades, body armor and a silencer, during raids on three locations in Los Angeles County. A sheriff's uniform and Nazi paraphernalia were also recovered.

A three-year investigation conducted by a task force headed by the FBI and the Ontario Police Department, with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the California Department of Corrections, the Orange County Sheriff's Department and the Costa Mesa Police Department, culminated with twelve members and associates of the Nazi Lowriders being charged in a 17-count indictment alleging extortion, conspiracy to distribute drugs in prison, witness tampering, robbery, attempted murder and murder, on February 13, 2002. All of those charged were already in custody at the time of the indictment. Michael Bridge, a high-level NLR member, and Robert Baltimore, a "soldier" in the gang, were charged with the murder of an inmate in 1996. All twelve defendants pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges, including a senior member of the gang who was sentenced to nearly 23 years in federal prison in 2003.

In popular culture

In the 2017 crime film Shot Caller, Jacob "Money" Harlon briefly has a cellmate named Ripper (played by Keith Jardine) who is a member of the Nazi Lowriders, sporting an "NLR" tattoo across his forehead.

References

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^ Nazi Low Riders boast over 1,000 members, most in prison Archived 2021-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Camille Jackson, Southern Poverty Law Center (July 20, 2004)
^ White Power Gangs: The NLR (Nazi Low Riders) Story B. Belt and G. Doyle, National Criminal Justice Reference Service (March 1998) Archived January 31, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
^ Rosenzweig, David (August 3, 2000). "Federal Prosecutors Target Prison Gang in Drug Crackdown". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2014.
^ Bigots on Bikes: The Growing Links between White Supremacists and Biker Gangs Anti-Defamation League (September 2011) Archived November 12, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
McCleskey, O'Neill, Claire (November 29, 2012). "The allies sureños have are "Skinheads" or "Nazis"". InSight Crime. Archived from the original on May 23, 2020. Retrieved June 15, 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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Finnegan, William (November 24, 1997). "The Unwanted". The New Yorker. No. December 1, 1997. p. 60. Archived from the original on March 27, 2018.
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